EXTINCTIONS PAST People may have caused a distinctive line of gibbons to go extinct sometime within the last 2,000 years, a discovery from an ancient Chinese tomb suggests.All gibbon species ...

Excavations in an ancient Chinese tomb discovered an unknown species of gibbon. Kiona N. Smith – Jun 22, 2018 1:34 pm | 21 Credit: Turvey et al. 2018 ...

Until now, the oldest remains of an ancient gibbon species consisted of a small number of teeth found in China, which date from around 7 million to 9 million years ago.

A long-forgotten species of ape has been found buried in a 2,300-year-old tomb. It's a type of gibbon, which scientists named Junzi imperialis. Gibbons are the smallest apes, chatty and as lanky ...

In fact, gibbons were through to channel considerable amounts of chi (energy), and often appeared in ancient Chinese poems, stories and art, Chatterjee noted. During its lifetime, J. imperialis ...

Gibbon likely belonged to Lady Xia, grandmother of China's first emperor, ... The ancient grave also contained the skeletons of leopards, lynx, bears, cranes and domestic animals.

Paleontologists identified an extinct gibbon species in an over 2,000-year-old imperial Chinese tomb, raising the question of a human-caused extinction.

Ancient Royal Tomb Yields Strange New Ape Species. ... “Gibbons are being openly advertised for sale on Twitter and Instagram and Facebook,” she says.

In the Olympic Games of Ancient Greece, long-jumpers would leap while carrying weights called halteres in their hands. From either a standing start or a short run, they swung the weights and leapt ...

British researchers have identified a gibbon found in an ancient Chinese tomb as a never-before seen, now-extinct genus and species. Extinct Gibbon Found in Tomb of Ancient Chinese Emperor’s ...